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EDUCATION
Ph.D.
Candidate, ABD
University of Georgia - Athens, GA
Dissertation: "The Blessings of Business: Christian Entrepreneurs
and the Politics and Culture of Sunbelt America"
Committee: James C. Cobb (chair), John C. Inscoe, Laura Mason,
Bethany E. Moreton
Research
interests: twentieth century U.S., cultural history, economic
history, South/Sunbelt, religion, music
Comprehensive
exam fields: post-1865 American history, pre-1865 American
history, cultural studies, world history
M.A.,
December, 2004
University of Georgia - Athens, GA
B.A., June, 2001
Furman University - Greenville, SC
Majors: History and Communication Studies
REFEREED ARTICLES
"The
Political Economy of a Chicken Sandwich: S. Truett Cathy, Chick-fil-A,
and the Sunbelt South," forthcoming in Michelle Nickerson
and Darren Dochuk, eds., Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space,
Place and Region in the American South and Southwest (under
contract with University of Pennsylvania Press).
"Selling
a 'Disneyland for the Devout': Religious Marketing at Jim Bakker's
Heritage USA," in Dominic Janes, ed. Shopping
for Jesus: Faith in Marketing in the USA (Washington,
D.C.: New Academia Publishing, 2008).
"'The
South Got Something to Say': Atlanta's Dirty South and the Southernization
of Hip-Hop America" in Southern
Cultures, vol. 12, no. 4 (Winter 2006).
"All
in Good Fun: Alcohol Culture and Recreational Space in Post-War
Upstate South Carolina" in Southern
Historian, vol. 27 (Spring 2006).
"Sam
Jones, Sam Hose, and the Theology of Racial Violence" in
Georgia
Historical Quarterly, vol. 90, no. 1 (Spring 2006).
REVIEWS
AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
"Suburbanization,"
forthcoming in James G. Thomas and Wanda Rushing, eds., The
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 17 (under contract
with University of North Carolina Press).
"Evangelicalism"
and "Religious Fundamentalism," forthcoming in Roger
Chapman, ed. Encyclopedia of the Culture Wars (M.E. Sharpe,
2008).
Review of
Charles Reagan Wilson and Mark Silk, eds., Religion and Public
Life in the South: In the Evangelical Mode (Rowan and Littlefield,
2005) in The Journal of Southern
Religion, vol. 9 (2006).
"Megachurches,"
"Church of God," "African Methodist Episcopal Church,"
"Assemblies of God," "Lutheran Church," "Southern
Baptists," and "Henry W. Grady" in John Inscoe,
ed. The New
Georgia Encyclopedia, 2004-2007.
CONFERENCE
PARTICIPATION
"South
Toward Heaven: America's Southern Rim and the Transnational Missions
of Christian Entrepreneurs." Forthcoming paper for the 123rd
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New
York City, New York, January 2-5, 2009. Panel organizer: "Missions
to the World: Transnational Perspectives on Modern American Religions."
"Sacred
Sprawl: Christian Entrepreneurialism, Suburban Development, and
Growth Politics in America's Southern Rim." Forthcoming paper
for the Fourth
Biennial Conference of the Urban History Association, Houston,
Texas, November 5-9, 2008. Panel: "Sunbelt Boom and the Politics
of the Right."
"Postmodern
Blues: Alt-Country, Southern Rap, and Life in the Un-Sunbelt."
Invited paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the St. George
Tucker Society, Augusta, Georgia, August 7-10, 2008. Panel: "The
Neo-New South?"
"The
Political Economy of a Chicken Sandwich: S. Truett Cathy, Chick-fil-A,
and the Sunbelt South." Paper presented for "Sunbelt
Rising: The Politics of Space, Place and Region in the American
South and Southwest," Los Angeles, California, July 18-19,
2008. Panel: "Contingent Places."
"From
Christ-Haunted to God Blessed: Thinking About Post-War Prosperity
and the Evangelical Upstate." Invited paper presented at
the Clemson-Furman University Conference on "Our Past Before
Us: The Search for the South Carolina Upcountry," Greenville,
South Carolina, March 8-10, 2007. Panel: "Religion and Cultural
Shifts in the Upcountry."
"Long
as I Got My Plastic Jesus: Local Church Culture, Consumer Culture,
and the Remaking of America's Bible Belt." Paper presented
at the Boston College Conference on the History of Religion, Boston,
Massachusetts, March 24-25, 2006.
Panel organizer with John Hayes: "Rethinking the Bible Belt:
Modernization, Culture, and Religious Transformation in Twentieth
Century America."
"'The
South Got Something to Say': Race, Region, and the Rise of Atlanta's
Rap Industry." Paper presented at the 50th Annual Meeting
of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Atlanta, Georgia, November
17, 2005. Panel: "Atlanta, Georgia, the South."
"Sam
Jones and Sam Hose: An Evangelist's Public Debate with Lynching
in Georgia." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Georgia Association of Historians, Kennesaw, Georgia, April 3,
2004. Panel: "The New South."
TEACHING
University of Georgia -- Athens, GA -- Instructor (2006
- present)
- HIST2112
-- American History Since 1865
- HIST3073
-- Modern America, 1945-Present
- HIST3150
-- Religion in American History
AWARDS
Warner-Fite Award for the Outstanding Graduate Student in American/U.S.
History, Department of History, University of Georgia, 2008.
American
History Dissertation Research Award, Colonial Dames of America,
2007.
Outstanding
Teaching Assistant Award, Office of Instructional Support and
Development, University of Georgia, 2004-2005.
Phi Beta Kappa, Furman University, 2001.
Phi Alpha
Theta, Furman University, 2000.
Phi Eta Sigma,
Furman University, 1997.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Contributing editor, Religion
and American History Blog, 2007-present.
Organization of American Historians, 2004-present.
American Historical Association, 2003-present.
Southern Historical Association, 2003-present.
Updated:
07/15/08
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